About RoleTailored Architecture

     RoleTailored architecture components are new with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. They work together to make the product more flexible, efficient, scalable, and secure, while also improving the user experience.

The Three Tiers of the RoleTailored Architecture

The RoleTailored architecture is a three-tiered architecture which contains the following levels:

Presentation level (RoleTailored client)

Business logic and communication level (Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server) 

Data level (SQL Server database)

The different tiers can be installed on different computers. You can have multiple instances of any of the components (though usually not on the same computer): multiple clients, multiple servers, and multiple database servers.

Here's a simple installation with two SQL Server database computers, each associated with a single Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server computer, each of which in turn supports two Microsoft Dynamics NAV RoleTailored clients:

         

RoleTailored Architecture Components

The components that make up the RoleTailored architecture in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 are:

RoleTailored Client 

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server 

Database Components and SQL Server